Breached the ban?: trade in half your fine for a course on secondary smoke!

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has offered a course to people fined for breaching the smoking ban. If they attend, they are let off half the fine.

I wonder who designed the course, who it was designed for (not only for people who breach the ban, surely? I thought everyone loved the ban!), how long it goes on and how much nonsense is peddled in it. It's almost bound to say that there is no safe level of secondary smoke and that ventilation never works. (Although it seems that ASH is retreating from this impossible position in the context of outdoor smoking bans.)

Nice to know that someone can make money out of the ban being breached, and all in the name of 're-education' too. When I was at school people used to think that kind of education was a sinister form of brainwashing.

Pensioner fined for littering (cigarette ash)

Over to Anna Raccoon, who has launched a campaign to assist Sheila Martin, fined for allowing cigarette ash to drop from a half-finished cigarette. Fighting 'em on the Sandwell.